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...massive student protest against military discrimination against gays and lesbians led the council to overturn the decision. The facultynever debated the issue...
...voters, began denouncing the special session as a costly waste of time. Just days before the session opened, Florida's supreme court ruled that abortion was protected by the state constitution, which contains a right-to-privacy clause approved by the voters in 1980. The court went on to overturn a state law requiring that parents be notified when their teenage daughters seek abortions...
...upshot of last term's rulings, says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs, was that everyone "exists as a separate, individual, raceless, genderless person who is allowed to succeed or fail in terms designed for middle-class white men." Several U.S. Senators are drafting legislation to try to overturn some of those discrimination rulings...
Rhetoric aside, the decision in Webster revealed that there are now four Justices who want to keep the right to abortion intact, four who would like to overturn Roe and give the states wider discretion to restrict abortion, and one -- Justice O'Connor -- who cannot be placed with certainty in either camp. In past abortion cases, O'Connor has said she would allow state restrictions as long as they are not "unduly burdensome." But, abortion-rights advocates say, she has yet to meet a burden she considers to be undue. Among those that have passed O'Connor's standard: requiring...
...issues. But that hard core of pro-life sentiment is slightly outnumbered by the 32% who say they would never vote for an office-seeker who advocates restricting a woman's right to obtain an abortion. The poll also found that 57% do not believe that the court should overturn its ruling in Roe, while 61% disagree with the decision in the Webster case. Only 31% favor new state laws restricting access to abortion, while 57% oppose such limitations...